The latest issue of LA+ Journal, the Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture, titled ENVIRONMENT, is now out, offering a critical look at the evolving meanings and histories behind one of landscape architecture’s most foundational yet under-examined concepts. Once seen as passive backdrop or ecological surround, “environment” is reinterpreted here as a dynamic and contested field of ideas, materialities, and politics.
Essays and interviews in this issue range from environmental history and nuclear risk to soundscapes, habitat futures, and environmental justice, featuring leading voices from across disciplines. Highlights include:
– Dipesh Chakrabarty on climate history – Jess Conard on frontline environmental activism – Maria Ivanova and Michael Oppenheimer on policy and planetary risk – Sonja Dümpelmann and Etienne Benson on forgotten environmentalisms – Andrew Witt, Karen M’Closkey, Melissa Ragain, and Jessica Varner on spatial and aesthetic entanglements of environment
The issue also includes thematic visual explorations and speculative essays on seascapes, cryospheres, and future megafauna.
Published by the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, LA+ ENVIRONMENT is edited by Karen M’Closkey, with creative direction by Catherine Seavitt and design by Colin Curley and team.
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